Copyright (c) 2009 University of Massachusetts Medical School All rights reserved. http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres Recent documents in Posters and Presentations en-us Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:06:08 PDT 3600 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/25 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/25 Mon, 21 May 2007 15:16:00 PDT Objective:This poster describes the Library's first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations in-house for an institutional repository. The Library hopes to provide a showcase for the medical school's research, teaching, and scholarship; promote open access to research; and make available an easy way for faculty and researchers to promote and distribute their work. Method:The Library Director established a team to investigate institutional repository products. The team created a chart assigning weights to important criteria in order to evaluate various systems. In 2006 the Library purchased a license for ProQuest Digital Commons, a hosted system. As a manageable first project, the team focused on digitizing the 300 dissertations produced by one of the graduate schools. The intent was to populate the repository quickly, generate visibility, and gain support across the medical school. The team worked with the graduate school to develop a permissions form and a process to contact alumni. The Library Director decided to scan the dissertations in-house rather than outsource. The team made technical decisions about software and equipment for scanning and creating searchable text, using OCR technology, deciding what metadata to collect, and how to reuse data from the library's OPAC. Results:The project is currently well under budget. As of February 2007, more than 65% of the alumni contacted have given permission for their dissertations to be digitized. The 247 dissertations added to the repository have been downloaded more than 6300 times in just eight months. The project was profiled in the school's internal newsletter, leading to increased visibility and interest. Another graduate school recently agreed to deposit their dissertations in the repository. Continued challenges include workflow, documenting policies and procedures, managing copyright issues, and creating a plan to market and promote the repository on campus. Conclusion:The Library's first digitization project has been successful due to library funding, support, and management; the skills of team members; the purchase of a hosted product; and the partnership with the graduate school. Future success will be indicated by continued funding, increased faculty and department participation, and greater campus awareness. Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, on May 20, 2007. Mary E. Piorun Libraries, Digital Libraries, Medical Dissertations, Academic University of Massachusetts Medical School Lamar Soutter Library Institutional repositories Library materials -- Digitization Project management http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/24 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/24 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:13:56 PST Purpose of program/study/research: To accelerate the advancement of women professionals at an academic medical center through creative collaboration. Methodology (including study design, analysis, and evaluation): The UMass Medical School Women's Faculty Committee (WFC) initiated a partnership with the medical library to compete successfully to host the traveling exhibition "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians." Concurrent with the 6-week exhibition, fifteen events brought local and nationally prominent women together for mentoring activities, an original dramatic production, and an awards luncheon for women faculty. Women featured in the exhibit as well as its Visiting Curator spoke at UMMS about their research and career challenges, read from their published works, and were featured at graduation and a regional medical society event. Results: Application-writing and event planning sessions forged robust working relationships among top-ranking administrators, senior and junior faculty, and staff. The exhibition increased opportunities for administration, faculty, and students to understand the impact of women in medicine, their leadership potential, and historical contributions. It also generated new mentor/mentee relationships and grant-writing collaborations. The exhibition's national recognition helped draw a larger, more diverse and gender-balanced audience (575+ people) to the events enhancing the visibility of the WFC, as evidenced by institutional funding for women faculty to attend the AAMC WIM professional development workshops and ELAM for the first time. Conclusion(s): Creative partnerships, motivated by the opportunity to host "Changing the Face of Medicine," produced greater than expected gains for women faculty, generating new awareness and understanding of women's accomplishments and leadership potential. This partnership allowed for a wide range of multi-disciplinary efforts, strengthening networking across silos, and advancing the goals of women in an academic medical center. Presented October 29, 2006 at AAMC 2006 Annaul Meeting, Seattle, WA. Patricia D. Franklin Education, Medical Mentors Physicians, Women Academic Medical Centers Libraries, Medical http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/23 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/23 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:25:19 PST This presentation highlights our experiences with our first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations in-house for an institutional repository. We start at the beginning: selecting team members and identifying their roles, choosing the right repository system, and identifying a manageable first project. After this background information, we detail our current project. We include administrative information such as how we have partnered with our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and contacted alumni for permission to digitize their dissertations. We also discuss technical information and decisions such as software and equipment used to scan and create searchable text, using OCR technology to convert abstracts, deciding what metadata to collect, and how to re-use data from our OPAC. And finally we describe workflow and skill level of staff members and the coordination required between the Library's Systems and Technical Services departments. Presented November 6, 2006, at Scanning Forum 2006 meeting, Charlottesville, VA. Mary E. Piorun Libraries, Digital Libraries, Medical Dissertations, Academic University of Massachusetts Medical School Lamar Soutter Library Institutional repositories Library materials--Digitization http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/22 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/22 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:36:43 PDT e-Mental Health in Central Massachusetts (EMH) is a web-based resource designed to improve access to evidence-based mental health information and local resources for mental health professionals and consumers. The Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), in collaboration with the UMMS Department of Psychiatry and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, developed EMH to meet the needs of practitioners, patients and caregivers. The project provides an integrative web-based information resource that includes searchable databases of (1) local mental health care services and (2) quality-filtered information about mental health conditions and diseases. Centralized access to professional resources, information literacy training, professional reference services and document delivery to a traditionally underserved population are also provided. After training, participants in the program use the resource regularly and demonstrate heightened awareness of reliable mental health information available to them. The collaborative spirit also continues and will surely benefit future endeavors. Elaine Russo Martin Mental Health Mental Disorders Patient Education Internet http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/21 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/21 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:49:19 PDT Purpose: This electronic poster will report on the process of digitizing a special collection, from obtaining funding and deciding what to scan, to options for scanning and making the collection available for faculty and student use. Setting/Participants/Resources: The Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts is a mid-sized, academic health sciences library. The library holds a small collection of original research in genetics and reproductive studies carried out by Gregory Pincus, Sc.D., in the mid-twentieth century. The Library Systems Department and Technical Services Department worked together to obtain funding to digitize the special collection. Brief Description: The library received funding that would allow archival material to be scanned using an outside vendor. After interviewing a number of state contractors, the library realized it would need to write a request for proposal (RFP) and bid the work to handle unique materials. At the same time, the library partnered with two other libraries in the state university system to obtain university funding that would pay salaries for a graphic editor and cataloger to process the digitized collection. In deciding how to store the images for search and retrieval, the library looked at other imaging projects already in progress in the university and chose to use the same software, Cumulus. This poster will cover the issues of defining the scope of the project, obtaining funding, choosing scanning options and formats, deciding whether to enhance images or note or to use watermarking options, dealing with cataloging and indexing issues, and evaluating the options for presenting a digital collection to the public. Results/Outcomes: Six hundred slides have been scanned, enhanced, watermarked, cataloged, and indexed. By using Cumulus software, the collection was made available for faculty and student use. Evaluation Method: Comments from faculty and students were gathered to determine if digitizing special collection is worth the cost and effort associated with such projects. Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, May 19, 2002. Mary E. Piorun Libraries, Medical Archival materials Digitization Digital preservation Cataloging Libraries, Digital Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967 Contraceptives, Oral History, 20th Century http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/20 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/20 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:16:28 PDT Objective: This poster chronicles the life and career of Lamar Soutter, who overcame both personal and professional challenges in becoming the founding dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Our objective is to demonstrate how the fields of medicine and medi­cal education have benefitted from Soutter's determination to meet and overcome adversity in his life.Methods: A Web-based exhibit highlighting Soutter's life was devel­oped recently by a team of librarians. By making extensive local and national contacts, we were able to assemble a chronology of life events for Soutter. Our research has revealed that throughout his life, Soutter has overcome several distinct personal and professional challenges. Significant contributions to medicine and its practice have been the result, including the establishment of a blood bank and the creation of a new state medical school. Other events include a research expedition through uncharted territory in the Yukon, during which he and a com­panion nearly lost their lives, and his gallant service in World War II as a field surgeon behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge.Results: The Lamar Soutter Website exhibit is available at library.umassmed.edu/soutter/.Conclusions: Soutter overcame personal and professional adversity to achieve distinction as a scientist, physician, educator, and humanitar­ian.Presented at: The Medical Library Association's annual meeting, May 2005. Robert Vander Hart Physicians Lamar Soutter, 1909-1996 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/19 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/19 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:34:31 PDT A review of the free Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library website, part of the part of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH) at Georgetown University. Nancy E. Harger Maternal Health Services Maternal Child Health Centers http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/18 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/18 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:06:34 PDT This poster chronicles the development and utilization of a Pediatric Family Resource Library developed through collaboration between an academic medical library, a hospital library and the department of pediatrics. The Library is an attractive room in the busy waiting area of the UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center, an outpatient pediatric primary care and multi-specialty service. Books, pamphlets and audio-visual materials are available for check out; librarians and parents who staff the Library also provide reference services. The point of care availability of resources and reference services has positively impacted clinicians' practices and families' ability to care for their children. OBJECTIVES: On completion of this session, the participant should be able to: Understand the development process for a point of care patient information service. Recognize the value of collaboration between clinicians and professional medical librarians in enhancing patient education. Appreciate the role of parents of the clinic population as part of the Library staff. Elaine Russo Martin Patient Education Libraries, Medical Libraries, Hospital Pediatrics http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/17 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/17 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:18:04 PDT Purpose: To continue the Pediatric Family Resource Library project started in January 2002 with the goal of providing health information to families at the point of care. The current project, funded through a National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region subcontract, will provide formal and informal classes to teach parents to find and use quality health information on the Internet. Setting: Parents and families who use the Children's Medical Center will have the opportunity to attend a basic Internet class and then a class to locate quality health information. The classes will be held over a one-year period in the library's new computer instruction facilities. Methodology: Two classes per quarter will be scheduled--one on Internet Basics and one on finding and evaluating health information on the Internet. Child care and free parking will be provided. The project will also provide customized classes for parent groups and community agencies that serve children. Multiple classes are scheduled for the pediatric clinic staff to find quality health information. Description: A multiple-pronged approach will be used to publicize the classes and services provided by the Pediatric Library. Classes will be didactic and hands on--taught by experienced librarians. Results: The addition of classes will increase awareness and use of the Children's Medical Center Pediatric Library and offer support and networking opportunities for the parents. This project started on October 1, 2002, and results from the classes are anticipated for MLA '03. Discussion: Parents are making health care decisions about their children every day and need to be empowered and confident with their skills to find quality health information. Many of the children who are cared for at the Children's Medical Center have lifelong and complicated health problems. Many of these parents have become knowledgeable about how to access the Internet but may lack the critical skills necessary to evaluate the quality of the health information they find. This project will attempt to meet this need. Evaluation: At the end of each class session, the parents will complete an evaluation form. Nancy E. Harger Patient Education Libraries, Medical Libraries, Hospital Pediatrics Child Health Services Disabled Children Massachusetts http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/16 http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_postpres/16 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:56:52 PDT OBJECTIVE: To teach 3rd year medical students in a Family Medicine rotation the concepts and methods required to practice Evidence-Based Medicine and how to search for that evidence. The course was developed with an emphasis on finding resources and included an extensive epidemiological and statistical component. Using student evaluations, the evolution over five years will be explored.METHODS: The didactic and experimental curriculum was developed with a strict interpretation of search strategies and EBM philosophy and rationale. In 1999, the class contained a detailed component on epidemiology and statistical interpretation of the four clinical study categories (etiology, diagnosis, therapy and prognosis). Following each session, student evaluations were solicited and changes were made to the curriculum based on student feedback and follow-up faculty discussion. Today, a more treatment-centered ethics-based curriculum is taught. While Evidence-Based vocabulary and some statistics such as Absolute Risk and Number Needed to Treat and Harm are included, emphasis is now placed on teaching students to look for good evidence and to use these findings within an effective patient interaction. Collected student evaluations from across the five-year time span will be analyzed to demonstrate the evolutionary steps of the curriculum.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: "More time for searching!" This is always a top comment on student evaluations. Ways to make this happen are consistently being identified and put into practice. As class time is limited, what is taught and how it is taught has become very selective. One recently incorporated tool is the use of a pre-session WebCT-based orientation. Material is always being added within this format to free up class time for more interactive practice. Two other practical content areas that have recently been introduced into the course are a) talking with patients about relative risk and b) understanding bias in the medical literature. The very simple evaluation form remains a device with which to collect further student feedback. The course will continue to be updated as EBM methodologies and outlooks within the medical community change and grow. Len L. Levin Evidence-Based Medicine Family Practice Clinical Clerkship Library Services Teaching